What about a quantum computer, such as Google's D-Wave?
Quantum computers are great but they aren't for processing power. Things like the Titan or the Tianhe-2 are still more powerful.
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Modern super computers, I meant. Try shrinking the Titan into your fist >.>
Which, by the way sinaj, is much better at calculating than your brain is, and even then, your brain certainly isn't "micro".
Actually, I meant my Smartphone! It could have sent 2 missions to the moon at once, if you would replace Android with something with something more efficent. -
Actually, I meant my Smartphone! It could have sent 2 missions to the moon at once, if you would replace Android with something with something more efficent.Hardly a super computer for todays standards (especially since the moon missions needed very small amounts of calculation). I obviously wasn't talking about things like the cray-1, but more like Taihne-2 (at least 1 petaFLOP/s):
this bad boy can do around 33 petaFLOP/s, or 33 quadrillion floating point operations (33,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP/s)
Your phone can probably do maybe 20 billion FLOP/s (20,000,000,000 FLOP/s)
Big difference, eh? -
Hardly a super computer for todays standards (especially since the moon missions needed very small amounts of calculation). I obviously wasn't talking about things like the cray-1, but more like Taihne-2 (at least 1 petaFLOP/s):
this bad boy can do around 33 petaFLOP/s, or 33 quadrillion floating point operations (33,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP/s)
Your phone can probably do maybe 20 billion FLOP/s (20,000,000,000 FLOP/s)
Big difference, eh?
If you look at it from a really great scale both are pretty much the same! -
What about a quantum computer, such as Google's D-Wave?
Quantum computers are hypothesized to be good at tiny fraction of some tasks. For daily computations they are awfully sucky.
Hardly a super computer for todays standards (especially since the moon missions needed very small amounts of calculation). I obviously wasn't talking about things like the cray-1, but more like Taihne-2 (at least 1 petaFLOP/s):
this bad boy can do around 33 petaFLOP/s, or 33 quadrillion floating point operations (33,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP/s)
Your phone can probably do maybe 20 billion FLOP/s (20,000,000,000 FLOP/s)
Big difference, eh?Now let's compare them in terms of (FLOP/s)/W
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Quantum computers are hypothesized to be good at tiny fraction of some tasks. For daily computations they are awfully sucky.
Now let's compare them in terms of (FLOP/s)/W
The Taihne-2 runs at 1.875 gigaFLOP/s per watt (in total running at ~17.6 MW), and using 20 gigaFLOP/s (estimate phone processing power) at roughly 40 watts (average phone power usage), runs at 0.5 gigaFLOP/s per watt, so the Taihne-2 is more efficient.
Quantum computers are more for security, passing data between other computers, than for actually calculating. That is up to a more powerful closed system computer.
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The Taihne-2 runs at 1.875 gigaFLOP/s per watt (in total running at ~17.6 MW), and using 20 gigaFLOP/s (estimate phone processing power) at roughly 40 watts (average phone power usage), runs at 0.5 gigaFLOP/s per watt, so the Taihne-2 is more efficient.
Hm, are you sure you calculated it right? I got ~0.5GF/W for Tianhe as well. -
Hm, are you sure you calculated it right? I got ~0.5GF/W for Tianhe as well.33,000,000,000,000,000FLOP/s / 17,600,000W = 1,875,000,000 FLOP/s/W = 1.875 GFLOP/s/W
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